JoyNews has confirmed that AirMed Flight N823AM landed in Ghana and stayed at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) for five days before departing for Gran Canaria, Spain.
This follows concerns raised by the Minority in Parliament regarding the aircraft’s activities in the country.
Ranking Member on Parliament’s Defense and Interior Committee, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, alleged that the air ambulance and another private jet may have been involved in drug trafficking or money laundering, a claim JoyNews cannot independently verify.
Checks on FlightRadar24, a trusted flight tracking platform, confirm that AirMed N823AM was originally scheduled to depart Gran Canaria on March 20, 2025, at 3:55 AM, and arrive in Accra at 8:08 AM.
However, it was delayed and eventually departed at 4:59 AM, landing in Accra at 9:03 AM.
The aircraft stayed in Ghana for five days before departing Kotoka International Airport on March 25, 2025, at 1:01 AM, and landing in Gran Canaria at 5:12 AM.
Since then, it has completed fifteen flights, including trips to Santa Maria, St. John’s, Bangor, and Birmingham on the same day, March 25.
In the last seven days, the aircraft has also flown to Nigeria. On March 28, it traveled from Gran Canaria to Lagos, Nigeria, and back on the same day.
Its most recent flight was on March 30, 2025, when it flew from Charlotte to Birmingham.
According to the Minority, AirMed Flight N823AM, an air ambulance, did not transport any patients but allegedly carried suspicious cargo suspected to contain cocaine and US dollars.
“There is no evidence of any medical referral or patient on board. Rather, our intelligence suggests that the aircraft was used to smuggle illicit cargo,” the Minority stated.
They further raised concerns about Cavok Air’s Antonov An-12B, which landed on March 12 and remained in Ghana for thirteen days before departing on the same day as the AirMed flight.
The Minority’s Ranking Member of the Defence and Interior Committee, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, described the coincidence as “intriguing” and called for full disclosure of the cargo transported.
“In our collective quest to combat drug trafficking and money laundering, transparency must be upheld. We urge National Security to provide details of the cargo brought into and taken out of the country by these two aircraft,” the Minority demanded.
The call follows a recent interception of $350 million worth of cocaine in Cape Coast by the National Investigations Bureau, an operation the Minority praised for its transparency.
Following the claims by the Minority, President John Mahama has directed the National Security and relevant authorities to conduct a full-scale investigation.
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